Geranium lucidum
| Geranium lucidum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Geraniales |
| Family: | Geraniaceae |
| Genus: | Geranium |
| Species: | G. lucidum |
| Binomial name | |
| Geranium lucidum L. | |
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Geranium lucidum, commonly known as shining cranesbill[1] or (in North America) shining geranium, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Geranium.
Description
An annual plant with stems up to 35 cm long and red. Leaves lobed or divided bluntly. Flowers 10 mm across with bright pink petals born in twos in May to August[2]with sharply keeled sepals. Hairs very small.[3]
Distribution
Common in Great Britain and Ireland.[4]
Habitat
Common on acid soils
References
- ↑ Hackney, P. (Ed) 1992. Stewart and Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast ISBN 0-85389-446-9
- ↑ Martin, W. Keble 1965. The Concise British Flora in Colour Ebury Press and Michael Joseph
- ↑ Parnell, J. and Curtis. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. ISBN 978-1-85918-478-3
- ↑ Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg, E.F. 1968. Excursion Flora of the British Isles (Second Edition) Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-04656-4
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